Calliope’s Corner: The Place Where Poets and Songwriters meet, is the premier creative arts and poetry program at Marconi Award winning radio station WRHU 88.7 FM Radio Hofstra University.
Calliope’s Corner has won several Gracie awards for its coverage in both the Health and Arts categories, as well as a Long Island Press Club award. Calliope’s Corner has a local focus interviewing community leaders in the poetry and writing fields, like the past Nassau County Poet Laureate Lorraine LoFrese Conlin and the late Maxwell Wheat; and local songwriters like Billy Lamont. The show has also hosted national figures including the late Emmy award winner Elaine Stritch and Grammy winner Diane Warren and Oscar nominated screenwriter Jay Parini and novelist Mona Simpson.
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